flowering

1. 1.

   having a flower or bloom

   “a flowering plant”

   Antonymsflowerless

Other forms of flowering

plural

flowerings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flowering

What does flowering mean?

flowering means "the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flowering?

flowering has 3 syllables: flo-we-ring. The stress falls on "flo". In IPA it is /ˈflaʊɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for flowering?

Close synonyms include blossoming, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of flowering?

The recorded antonyms are flowerless.

Is flowering a common word?

flowering is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.